Ananya Mukherjea
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ananya Mukherjea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ananya |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukherjea |
| SIGNATURE | MUKHERJEA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Studying HIV Risk in Vulnerable Communities
This article considers demographic categories used in the Young Men’s Study on HIV risk for men who have sex with men. We critique oversimplified pan-ethnic categories and the polarization of US racial discourse. We also interrogate the use of certain gender and sexuality markers that produced confusing results in this study. We use a critical standpoint derived from cultural studies to suggest that quantitative and qualitative methods of studyin…
Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India
Building capacities and producing citizens
Capacity-building has become a mainstay of many AIDS and public health programmes. This article examines its impact on civil society organisations and claims-making around citizenship, as these have been articulated through heterogeneous policy networks doing HIV prevention work. Drawing on a growing literature on the Foucauldian notions of biopower and governmentality, the genealogy of capacity-building as a globalised technology of governmental…
Unruly Bodies
Reviewed by: Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities Ananya Mukherjea (bio) Susannah B. Mintz’s Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007 Susannah B. Mintz’s Unruly Bodies provides a much needed discussion of disabled women’s understandings of their own lives, bodies, and identities and of the meanings that their disabilities have and produce in the world—for other…
Conceptualizing and assessing community-based HIV prevention work
In ‘Letting them die’: why HIV/AIDS prevention programmes fail, Catherine Campbell provides a tremendously valuable, detailed and sensitive case study, using it to ask questions that are crucial to making HIV prevention efforts productive and effective, which they have far too seldom been. She offers an insightful ethnographic look at the Summertown communitybased prevention project in South Africa, assessing the strengths and failures in its pla…
Studying HIV Risk in Vulnerable Communities
This article considers demographic categories used in the Young Men’s Study on HIV risk for men who have sex with men. We critique oversimplified pan-ethnic categories and the polarization of US racial discourse. We also interrogate the use of certain gender and sexuality markers that produced confusing results in this study. We use a critical standpoint derived from cultural studies to suggest that quantitative and qualitative methods of studyin…
Building capacities and producing citizens
Capacity-building has become a mainstay of many AIDS and public health programmes. This article examines its impact on civil society organisations and claims-making around citizenship, as these have been articulated through heterogeneous policy networks doing HIV prevention work. Drawing on a growing literature on the Foucauldian notions of biopower and governmentality, the genealogy of capacity-building as a globalised technology of governmental…
Conceptualizing and assessing community-based HIV prevention work
In ‘Letting them die’: why HIV/AIDS prevention programmes fail, Catherine Campbell provides a tremendously valuable, detailed and sensitive case study, using it to ask questions that are crucial to making HIV prevention efforts productive and effective, which they have far too seldom been. She offers an insightful ethnographic look at the Summertown communitybased prevention project in South Africa, assessing the strengths and failures in its pla…
Unruly Bodies
Reviewed by: Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities Ananya Mukherjea (bio) Susannah B. Mintz’s Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007 Susannah B. Mintz’s Unruly Bodies provides a much needed discussion of disabled women’s understandings of their own lives, bodies, and identities and of the meanings that their disabilities have and produce in the world—for other…
Building capacities and producing citizens
Capacity-building has become a mainstay of many AIDS and public health programmes. This article examines its impact on civil society organisations and claims-making around citizenship, as these have been articulated through heterogeneous policy networks doing HIV prevention work. Drawing on a growing literature on the Foucauldian notions of biopower and governmentality, the genealogy of capacity-building as a globalised technology of governmental…
Studying HIV Risk in Vulnerable Communities
This article considers demographic categories used in the Young Men’s Study on HIV risk for men who have sex with men. We critique oversimplified pan-ethnic categories and the polarization of US racial discourse. We also interrogate the use of certain gender and sexuality markers that produced confusing results in this study. We use a critical standpoint derived from cultural studies to suggest that quantitative and qualitative methods of studyin…
Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Politics (2 works)